5th World Congress for the Rights of Children and Adoelscents

V Congreso Mundial por los Derechos de la Infancia y la Adolescencia


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Start date 10-15-2012
Start date 10-19-2012

On October 15-19, 2012, Argentina will be hosting the 5th World Congress for the Rights of Children and Adolescents to discuss the achievements of Argentina's Public Policy for Children and Adolescents in the past five years. The World Congress began in Venezuela in 2003 under the theme "The RIght of Chidlren and Adolescents: An autonomous necessity" where 1,000 participants from 23 countries took part in the first congress. Since then consecutive World Congresses have taken place in Peru, Spain and Puerto Rico.

In the 5th congress, "A World Fit for Children" will be the main theme, adopted from the General Assembly United Nationa Special Session for Children (2002). The objective is to fight poverty, provide equal distribution of wealth and opportunities for children and adolescents worldwide, advocate a cooperative relationship between state and civil society for children's rights to be acknowledged and be exercised.

The Congress will begin on October 15, 2012 with a formal opening ceremony followed by a Master Lecture. The opening of the V World Congress will also include artistic and cultural activities. The Little Congress for Children will also begin based on a theoretical and methodological proposal of "philosophy with children". On October 16, 17 and 18, there will be 12 Lectures, 12 Panel Sessions and 60 Discussion Forums that will be selected from the 65 listed herein. On Friday, October 19, the closing ceremony of the V Congress will take place and the “Manifesto of San Juan” (a recommendation for a more just world for Children and Adolescents) will be submitted to the international community for consideration.

Central themes of the lectures are as the following:

1. Childhood, Adolescence and Social Change
2. Childhood, Adolescence and Adjustment Policies
3. Childhood, Adolescence and Pedagogy: Transmission or Emancipation
4. Childhood, Adolescence, Exclusion and Poverty
5. Childhood, Adolescence and Autonomy: The Rights
6. Childhood, Adolescence and Subjectivity, Identity and Social Sense of Belonging
7. The Rebel Attitude: Adolescence
8. Child Best Interests and Collective Rights
9. Childhood and Adolescence: Position in the Family and at School
10. Childhood, Adolescence and Democracy
11. Childhood, Adolescence and Cultural Industries
12. Childhood, Adolescence and Public Policies

For more information click www.vcongresomundialdeinfancia.org

V World Congress for Rights of Children and Adolescents - Argentina 2012 - Preliminary agenda